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Below are the notes I have taken during the NJ/NY VCDX workshop at @iamAntonZ ‘s place. We had a great opportunity to have 2 VCDX panelists giving the VCDX workshop, Niran Even-Chen ( @NiranEC) and Agustin Malanco (@agmalanco). You could find more info on this at http://nycvmug.blogspot.com/2016/06/re-cap-of-njnyv-vcdx-workshop.html These notes are by no means to be used or…

I had an interesting case a while ago. One of our test ESXI hosts running ESXi version 5.5 has crashed taking down number of test environments with it. All the attempts to bring the host back to life was in vain, as each reboot was giving us a Purple screen of Death. We needed these…

These are the esxi host log files one needs to be quite familiar with. These logs should be checked depending on the issue you facing, and trying to troubleshoot. /var/log/auth.log: ESXi Shell authentication success and failure. /var/log/lacp.log: Link Aggregation Control Protocol logs. /var/log/hostd.log: Host management service logs, including virtual machine and host Task and Events,…

I have not seen any special feature improvements in 5.5 over 5.1 that would have benefited our environment, and as with any other major new releases was patiently waiting for VMware to come out with Update 1 for vSphere 6. Originally I had the SSO, VMware Update Manager, and vCenter each running on its own server. Databases…

This post provides examples of dsconfig usage for OpenDJ config management. I might expand and update the post in the future, as i find more info. All the logs audit trails will be saved as long as you use OpenDJ supplied tools for modifying the DJ configs: Tools are: OpenDJ Control Panel and openDJ command…

I have recently needed to find out if an email with specific subject ever hit our Exchange servers or not. Using Meesage Tracking via Toolbox was not an option, given that we have number of exchange servers and email boxes across several Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2013 SP1 servers. After some searching on Technet…

Ifconfig is not included in the minimal install of the CentOS7, and needs to be installed manually. We need to add an IP address to our system via “ip” command, before we can install the net-tools or anything else from repos. Find network cards attached and their associated names:

Currently using a Dell C1100 (cs24-TY) with 2x quad core L5520 CPUs and 72 GB of RAM. Ebay has them plenty for anywhere from $500-$699 with out HDDs, trays included. Unfortunately this server does not come with a RAID controller, and is quite loud when running under a load. This particular server does not come with…